docs/160698: Remove outdated FreeBSD Jumpstart guide

Daniel Gerzo danger at freebsd.org
Tue Sep 13 11:10:08 UTC 2011


The following reply was made to PR docs/160698; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Daniel Gerzo <danger at freebsd.org>
To: <freebsd-doc at freebsd.org>
Cc: <bug-followup at freebsd.org>, <rodrigc at freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: docs/160698: Remove outdated FreeBSD Jumpstart guide
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 11:44:19 +0100

 On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 00:37:06 -0700 (PDT), Craig Rodrigues wrote:
 >>Number:         160698
 >>Category:       docs
 >>Synopsis:       Remove outdated FreeBSD Jumpstart guide
 
 >>Description:
 > 	Remove the FreeBSD Jumpstart article from docs.
 >         This article was written over 10 years ago, and the 
 > information
 >         has gotten stale. Some of the steps in this article no longer
 >         work.  For example, the FreeBSD Release team no longer
 >         produces installation floppy images in the FreeBSD release.
 >         I talked with Alfred, and he agreed that the information in
 >         this article is outdated and should probably be removed.
 >
 >         This article has been superceded by a new section in the 
 > FreeBSD
 >         Handbook.  This section will be visible here:
 >
 >         http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/network-pxe-nfs.html
 >
 >         At the moment, a draft version is visible here:
 >
 >
 > 
 > http://people.freebsd.org/~rodrigc/doc/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-pxe-nfs.html
 >
 
 Maybe we should add a simple HTML redirect for a short time until the 
 search engines adapt?
 
 -- 
 Kind regards
    Daniel



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